Vietnam veterans gaining back pride – and medals

Union Tribune ^ | 04Aug05 | Eric Tucker

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[brushcop]

I'll agree with your qualified remark. THIS TIME, none of that behavior will be tolerated within my eyesight. The protesting scum that traveled to Crawford, Texas to dishonor their sons and OUR country need to be run off. Yes, I still believe strongly in "LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!"

But they won't do either, there are like all the other Alec Baldwin scum that talk big, deliver nothing.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I want to thank you for your service to this country. I am already thanking the current war's vets when they are home on leave when I am given the opportunity. I don't want them to think for a moment that they are forgotten or that their sacrifice is for nothing. I want them to know that most Americans are supporting them inspite of what the media is trying to throw out to them.

[bimbo]

How a person who betrayed the military and his country can be elected to the Senate amazes me.

... it pains me still that an actual draft dodger was elected president - TWICE.

[dts32041]

The reality is that VN vets have NOTHING to NOT be proud of. They served their country well. Where the real problem lies is with the POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON, the libs who created VN, and then did NOT LET THE MILITARY FIGHT THE WAR. Those are the criminals, the bad boys, the people who SHOULD BE ASHAMED of what they did to VN vets...not the troops who did their dirty work, dying to allow them to play politcal chess with Viet Nam.

Sounds like some of the Politico's today, denigrate the US Military and then cry because it doesn't work right.

Politicians maybe it should be time to practice decimation.

[afnamvet]

Ordered mine last week, should be here soon. Bought the display case last week also.

[USMC Veteran]

... it pains me still that an actual draft dodger was elected president - TWICE.

Care to provide proof, not liberal rhetoric?

[river rat]

Roger your last!
This article doesn't pass the smell test...

I don't know a single warrior who "lost his pride"...
The only thing most of us lost was some beloved brothers, and respect for many of the leftists and cowardly bastards in America....

We never lost respect for ourselves or what we had accomplished.. Most folks don't realize - that U.S. forces NEVER lost a major engagement over the entire involvement in Vietnam..

The American Leftists, Leftist Media and weak kneed politicians lost the opportunity to free a nation, and wastefully sacrificed nearly 60,000 American lives and many times that number in horribly disfigured bodies and minds tormented by nightmares that wouldn't sleep.

Semper Fi

[Maigrey]

I already do... 'cause he's my Dad.

[Bob]

... it pains me still that an actual draft dodger was elected president - TWICE.

Care to provide proof, not liberal rhetoric?

I'm not sure but I think that reference was to clinton, not GWB.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

I assumed it was Clinton also.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

what we didn't have was the nations respect, now we do.(at least 51% anyway

I belive you have the respect of far more than 51% of the nation.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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[elbucko]

I forgot to add, he HATED LBJ.

So do I. LBJ was the one who caused us to loose.

[USMC Veteran]

If it was, then I apologize. I'm just used to seeing those comments aimed at GWB.

[Fido969]

Still in his Army greens, William Tallerdy barely had both feet back on American soil when a man came up to him, demanding to know if he was returning from Vietnam. Then, right there in the airport, the heckler punched the veteran in the face.

I remember those days.

You know, it is important to document these stories. Lately, the lefties have started saying that these things NEVER HAPPENED to Viet Nam vets.

[kabar]

Many returning Vietnam veterans, faced with a hostile public, threw out their medals. Some, like former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, even did it in public as an act of protest.

Kerry claims those weren't his medals. Yet, he received replacement medals and certificates in 1985 signed by SECNAV Lehman. Kerry didn't earn any of his three PHs and made up the rest. The MSM continues to spin for this traitor.

[burzum]

Lehman. He was the bastard that fired Adm. Rickover. When I hear his name I just want to scream.

[kabar]

After sixty-four years of service, Rickover was forced to retire from the Navy as a full admiral by President Reagan on January 19, 1982. I guess RR must have listened to Lehman.

[Bob]

If it was, then I apologize. I'm just used to seeing those comments aimed at GWB.

My speculation was based solely on bimbo's 1999 'born on' date.

It never ceases to amaze me that the very people who accuse GWB of 'dodging the draft' by serving in the Reserves have no problem at all with their own real draft-dodger who loathed the military. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

BTW, I 'dodged the draft' by joining the Navy and ended up serving for 9 years. The year 1966 wasn't a real good one to flunk out of college. :=)